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CHEROKEE NATION, TRIBE OF INDIANS v. STATE OF OKL.

Civ. No. 6219.

416 F.Supp. 838 (1976)

The CHEROKEE NATION, OR TRIBE OF INDIANS, Plaintiff, v. STATE OF OKLAHOMA et al., Defendants. Choctaw Nation and the Chickasaw Nation, Intervenors.

United States District Court, E. D. Oklahoma.

May 4, 1976.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Earl Boyd Pierce, Ft. Gibson, Okl., Andrew Wilcoxen, Muskogee, Okl., for plaintiff.

Lon Kile, Hugo, Okl., for intervenors.

S. M. Groom, Jr., Edmond, Okl., for Mobil Oil, movant.

Donald B. Nevard and Kevin Murphy, Oklahoma City, Okl., for Oklahoma Tax Commission, movant.

ORDER

DAUGHERTY, Chief Judge.

The Cherokee Nation sued the State of Oklahoma and several of the State's lessees to establish its ownership of the bed of the Arkansas River between the confluence of the Grand and Arkansas Rivers and the Oklahoma-Arkansas State boundary. The relief sought by the Cherokees was an injunction and an accounting. Oklahoma and some of its lessees counter-claimed for a decree quieting title to the river bed in the State of Oklahoma...

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